[Pkg-pascal-devel] Multi-Arch flag for FPC

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,
On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 19:30 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou,
> 
> I don't know exactly anymore but it was related to your commit 2e04831¹
> and the one before. Probably lintian told me the value was wrong.
> 
> Paul
> 
> ¹
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-pascal/fpc.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=2
> e048318252d1ea4cacfcb5315917b772f0394b3

From a pure technical point of view, a user shall not need to install fp-
utils:arm or fp-ide:armel on a amd64 host as these tools are/shall be
architecture agnostic.
This means that one is granted that tools pulled by fp-utils:amd64 allow doing
the work for arm* using the amd64 binaries on the host.

Now for fp-compiler, there is a slight difference. I do expect that "aptitude
install fp-compiler:armel" pulls the compiler binary of armel so that one can
use qemu for cross compiling.

I do intend to extend fpc executable to use qemu to run other processors
compilers as a kind of cross compiler. Another way to do it is to ship a true
cross compiler.

However for now I don't intend to bother too much with that, I intend first to
solver the units co-install ability first then come to the big issue of cross
compiler.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir

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